"they never tell you how they shit themselves.."

now that i think about it, in the actual story it feels perfectly in character for legolas to constantly point things out that everyone else is aware of, because he knows they have worse senses and overcompensates.

"the enemy approaches" yes thank you legolas we can see that.
"right, yes. sorry.."

janitor gets beamed, comes out unchanged except for a full head of glorious hair and a big smile on his face

there's something incredibly appealing about mostly being completely normal, but then someone needs to reach a high shelf and you just turn into a blob of goo and stretch out like an amoeba

i think that gives them too much credit, even. They don't know what is true or false, LLMs can't even really properly do logic in the way that normal programs can, they just have to emulate logic via really fancy statistics and the fact that the things they're trained on contain responses to logic.

Finally a place for me to whinge about how sweden has adopted "city" as our term for downtown, it feels so aggressively stockholmian to force in an english word like that when we already have "centrum" which is the same as most european langauges anyway.

bog standard here in sweden, thank god

it seems in some countries they just don't want self-checkout to actually work

Therapist: "do you suffer from distorted perception of reality?"
I, René Descartes: "don't we all? How could anyone, anything trust their senses to accurately describe the infinite complexity of reality? All we can truly know for sure is that we think, therefore we are."

The first one does feel like calling a person with glasses disabled because they would struggle with seeing if they didn't have their glasses, though.

fwiw i felt the same way and yet when i went in for a diagnosis we all realized the testing was basically just a formality after a few minutes of talking.

I think it's what used to be called aspergers, that general kind of autism where you're ostensibly normally functional but you just work a bit differently. For me it's like half of the symptoms are pretty subtle but persistent (like being into technical stuff and good at learning stuff i enjoy) and the other half are the stereotypically autistic "dysfunctions" that only appear sometimes (mostly when i'm stressed).